Sentences with phrase «human ends»

The result is that they can not be used only for human ends.
This is how rescue opportunities are lost — or worse, how humans end up with a nasty bite.
How 12 early humans ended up deep inside a South African cave is a mystery.
The most recent resume format 2016 indicates that those who chose to write for machines or software and not for humans end up losing their grip to landing a job.
Economics should be just one part of the good life; instead, powerful economic forces now create pressures on individuals and families to pursue material gain at the expense of other important human ends.
The recognition that the nonhuman animal is an end in itself and not merely a means to human ends explodes the assumption of traditional ethics.
But lacking an explicit ethic, the implicit Christian land ethic has been that any human dominion over the land is justifiable so long as it serves worthy human ends.
We think of nature as inert stuff without any life of its own; we approach it merely as a tool to achieve human ends.
Hence if God is shaping human ends, he must at times interfere in individual thought and will.
By virtue of its very categories, this picture of a final human end would be unacceptable or inconceivable for Buddha or Shankara, the great sage of Vedanta.
On the basis of this presumption all that is «below» man can be put to the service of man; it can be used for human ends regardless of the consequences for other aspects of life in the world.
There is no necessary contradiction in these two accounts of possible human ends, though there is a decisive divergence in their evaluative frameworks for these ends, and there are contradictions in the metaphysical assumptions associated with each framework.
The momentum continues as All too Human ends on an emphatically female note with the work of four contemporary artists — Celia Paul, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Jenny Saville and Cecily Brown — each of whom have the human form as their main focus, and who bring their explorations of figurative painting into the here and now.
Energy is classified in a variety of types and becomes useful to human ends when it flows from one place to another or is converted from one type into another.
Would that be conducive to important human ends?
The recognition that every animal is an end in itself and not merely a means to human ends explodes the assumptions of our traditional ethics.
It repeats the Enlightenment temptation to design a religion that will serve human ends.
We see that it locates all intrinsic value in human experience, the satisfying of human wants, and treats everything else as merely instrumental to human ends.
In what sense, after all, is the land valuable apart from its usefulness to human ends?
This alienation is coupled with humanity's innate superiority over nature and the divine mandate to exploit nature limitlessly for human ends — a mandate that is carried out in the context of antagonism and an expectation that the earth must be treated harshly to gain the yield of human survival.
For Wallis's ultimate rejection of a Realpolitik (working within the corrupt «political» system to effectively garner power for human ends) is based on his understanding of Jesus» servanthood (identifying with the poor and oppressed, but rejecting all solutions based on political power).
The sole object and justification of this indifference to human ends — of the emphasis on «Right» over the «Good» — is nevertheless premised on the embrace of the liberal human as a self - fashioning individual and self - expressive consumer.
Augustine and Aquinas, of course, do argue for a plan in history and for a human end of happiness — and for the reality, if one is not too squeamish to use the word, of heaven.
As Sen points out, at the very beginning of The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle relates the subject of economics to human ends, referring to its concern with wealth.
We need an image of a future in which our technologies and energies are directed toward the achievement of human ends, rather than allowing the present imperatives of technique to carry us by its own weight toward a joyless robotism and finally to self - destruction.
Strauss seems to say it's found in the clasical view of the best constitution: All human ends are hierarchically ordered under the highest human end.
In this form of fantasy the powers are always mysterious, but by certain rites, incantations or motions they can be drawn upon by humans and used to human ends.
Deep ecologists want to counter Western culture's anthropocentrism — its tendency to place humanity at the center of the universe and to reduce the nonhuman world to an instrument for human ends — with a theory of an expanded self which calls for identification with the nonhuman world.
Whilst such an end in the natural order may well be intelligible, a knowing and loving as it were «at God», in the actual, historical dispensation, our spiritual and human end has been revealed as being «sharing the divine nature».
Ultimately the exploitation of animals for human ends must be stopped — just as slavery, child labour and other social ills have been.
DiChristina: It really does, I mean, I think when we kiddingly call it the death issue in internal editorial conversations, some of us really might have liked to focus more on that aspect of human endings.
Although their vision didn't quite reach that of monkeys born with normal genes, Neitz notes that the weakness might be attributable to the need for improvement on the human end in perfecting the treatment.
How does a human end up walking the golden halls of Asgard?
For dogs who tend to forget about the human end of the leash while in the midst of novel situations.If your dog pulls on lead and loses control when he sees another dog, joggers, playing children, cats or squirrels, this class is for you.
Week one of the beginning classes is the class orientation and training for the human end of the leash.
«There's a lot of understanding and empathy from the human end of it,» she said.
Once you have the harness fastened on your kitty, before picking her up, secure the «human end» of the leash to your hand as described two sections down.
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